The findings have revealed a lot about Ceres' origin. The dwarf planet stands out from all the others in the asteroid belt.

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, may hold answers to fundamental questions about the Solar System. This dwarf ...

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

But Charon was half the size of Pluto itself, so big that the Pluto-Charon combination ... adopted a resolution to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. The reasoning was that it didn't satisfy ...

About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...

Together, dwarf planets can help scientists learn a lot ... 2015 RR245 is catalogued as the "18th largest" object in the Kuiper belt, according to the Minor Planet Center, the organization ...

For more information on the biggest astronomical events of 2025, check out our celestial calendar. Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union ...

A planet killer capable of ripping them to pieces has been discovered, say space scientists. Researchers believe they've found evidence that a white dwarf may have torn a Jupiter-sized planet apart.

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...

Shields stressed that this results in a much faster rotation period—10 hours—for the white dwarf exoplanet, while Kepler-62's exoplanet has a 155-day rotation period. While both planets would ...